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Related Links
- Sector-based Assistance
- Sector-based Partnerships
- Other Sectors that Work with EPA
- The Common Sense Initiative
The following links point to resources on sector-based programs and sector information.
Sector-based Assistance
- Compliance Assistance Centers
: These sector-specific web-based centers help businesses, local governments, and federal facilities understand federal environmental requirements and save money through pollution prevention techniques. - Compliance Assistance Materials (Sector-Based): EPA provides compliance assistance on a sector-by-sector basis to help facilities with similar operations, processes, or practices.
- Environmental Management Systems for Sectors: EPA offers a number of sector-based EMS tools.
- Food Processing Environmental Assistance Center
- Practice Greenhealth : This organization educates health care professionals about pollution prevention opportunities in hospitals and health care systems.
- National Environmental Compliance Assistance Clearinghouse: This clearinghouse provides an online guide to sector-based environmental compliance resources and quick access to compliance assistance tools, contacts, and planned activities from EPA, its partners, and other compliance assistance providers.
- Pollution Prevention Resource Exchange (P2Rx) “Topic Hubs” : These regional pollution prevention information centers provide pollution prevention information, networking opportunities, and other services; the “Topic Hubs” include sector-specific resources.
- Sector Facility Indexing Project: This project compiles environmental data from a number of systems to produce facility-level profiles for five industry sectors (petroleum refining, iron and steel, primary nonferrous metal refining and smelting, pulp manufacturing, and auto assembly).
- Sector Notebook Series: This EPA site offers plain language booklets that describe environmental issues and profiles of major U.S. industrial sectors.
- Small Business Industry Sector Assistance : The Small Business Environmental Home Page (funded in a cooperative agreement with EPA’s Small Business Program) maintains links to industry sector web sites, national compliance assistance centers, and trade association web sites and contact information.
Sector-based Partnerships
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SmartWay Transport is an innovative collaboration between the freight industry and government to reduce air pollution and greenhouse gas emissions, improve fuel efficiency, and strengthen the freight sector. |
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The Resource Conservation Challenge is a national effort to conserve natural resources and energy by managing materials more efficiently. |
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Design for the Environment facilitates the identification and adoption of clean products, processes, technologies, and management systems. |
Voluntary Aluminum Industrial Partnership |
Voluntary Aluminum Industrial Partnership improves aluminum production efficiency while reducing perfluorocarbon (PFC) emissions. PFCs are potent greenhouse gases that remain in the atmosphere for thousands of years. |
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Other Sectors that Work with EPA
The following links point to industry activities for sectors not currently participating in the Sector Strategies Program.
- Aerospace
- Automotive Manufacturing
- Chemicals
- Computers and Electronics
- Dry Cleaning
- Hospitals
- Local Government
- Mining
- Petroleum Refining
- Pharmaceuticals
- Printing
- Service Industry
- Wastewater Utilities
Note: EPA no longer updates this information, but it may be useful as a reference or resource.
The Common Sense Initiative, 1995–1998: The Common Sense Initiative (CSI) was an innovative experiment with a goal of developing cleaner, cheaper, smarter approaches to protecting the environment and public health. This EPA initiative addressed environmental management by industrial sector rather than by environmental medium (air, water, land). Six subcommittees representing six industries, automobile manufacturing, computers and electronics, iron and steel, metal finishing, petroleum refining, and printing, were formed to address environmental issues facing their specific sector. The subcommittee members consisted of representatives from industry; environmental justice organizations; labor organizations; environmental organizations; and federal, state, and local governments.
On December 17, 1998, the CSI Council conducted its final meeting. The CSI Council presented 28 formal recommendations to the Agency. The recommendations were the result of work from the six Sector Subcommittees and the Council. Many of the 45 projects from CSI continued after the official end of the program. For more information, please see the Archived Documents section on the publications page.